Format Hard Disk or USB Removable Storage using Diskpart

Format Hard Disks or USB removable storage using the diskpart command line utility.

Open command prompt

Diskpart – To initiate the diskpart utility

List disk – To list all available disks.

Select disk – Select the disk you wish to format.

 Detail disk – Find out more details about the selected disk. Handy to make sure you are formatting the right disk.

Clean all – Formats the disk

Create partition primary – Creates a partition on the disk. If you don’t specify the size all available             space will be used by default.

Select partition 1 - Select desired partition

Active – Sets the selected partition as active.

Format fs=(enter desired filesystem ntfs, fat32 ect.) – formats the volume with the requires file system

Assign – to give the drive the next available drive letter or you can specify one by typing

Assign letter=(desired letter)

Exit – to exit diskpart